5.1. Acronyms/Glossary¶

(sorted alphabetically)

CDT

C/C++ Development Toolkit. More at http://eclipse.org/cdt

Cygwin

(todo:: add more on Cygwin here.)

Eclipse Configuration

The current running configuration of Eclipse. Which plugins are loaded. From which location. Which version? What are the JVM Parameters, etc.

Eclipse Features

A logical superset of plugins. e.g. Eclipse CVS Client is a Feature. There maybe separate plugins to provide ssh, ssh2, user interface, core functionality.

Eclipsepedia

The Wiki maintained at http://eclipse.org

EPL

The Eclipse Public License. The license can be accessed at http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.php

GNU

http://www.fsf.org/ , http://www.gnu.org

GPL

GNU General Public License

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

Indexing

Parsing C/C++ source code in advance to provide faster navigation, searching within code tree.

Java Virtual Machine

JVM

JVM

(todo:: Add what a JVM is here) More at http://www.java.com

LGPL

GNU Lesser General Public License

Mercurial

Mercurial Distributed SCM (The SCM used during development of this book.)

MinGW

Minimalist GNU for Windows. More at http://www.mingw.org, http://mingw.org/wiki/MinGW, http://mingw.org/wiki/FAQ

MSVC

Microsoft Visual C

UnxUtils

Ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. More at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

More entries are at Eclipsepedia Glossary